Artist: Nat King Cole

Title: Rare Radio Transcriptions

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2010

Label: JSP Records

UPC: 788065906320

Genre: Crooners

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Mutiny in the Nursery
2. F.D.R. Jones
3. The Sheik of Araby
4. The Blue Danube
5. Jingle Bells
6. Swannee River
7. Don't Blame Me
8. Dark Rapture
9. Blue Skies
10. Three Blind Mice
11. Caravan
12. There's No Anesthetic for Love
13. The Land of Make Believe
14. Dancing in the Street
15. 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That'cha Do It)
16. Riffin' in F Minor
17. Honey
18. Russian Lullaby
19. Snug As a Bug in a Rug
20. The Limp
21. Some Like It Hot
22. Liebestraum
23. I Like to Riff
24. Crazy Rhythm
25. Sweet Lorraine

DISC 2:
1. You're My Life
2. Trompin'
3. Black Spider Stomp
4. Scategoria
5. Rhythm Serenade
6. Rib Town Shuffle
7. Music'll Chase Your Blues Away
8. King Cole Blues
9. Honey Hush
10. Vine Street Jump
11. You Send Me
12. Pogo Stick Bounce
13. Jam Man
14. Fudge Wudge
15. Smokey Joe
16. Windy City Boogie Woogie
17. Gone with the Draft
18. This Side Up
19. This Will Make You Laugh
20. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
21. The Old Music Master
22. After You've Gone
23. Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
24. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
25. Shoo Shoo Baby
26. Miss Thing

DISC 3:
1. Close to You
2. Rhythm Sam
3. On the Sunny Side of the Street
4. Little Joe from Chicago
5. (Back Home Again in) Indiana
6. Don't Take Your Love from Me
7. No Love, No Nothin'
8. Shoo Shoo Baby
9. My Heart Tells Me
10. Harem Sandman
11. Speak Low
12. Them There Eyes
13. Mexico Joe
14. Lester Leaps in
15. Just Another Blues
16. Wild Goose Chase
17. Besame Mucho
18. Please Consider Me
19. That'll Just About Knock Me Out
20. You Must Be Blind
21. Too Marvelous for Words
22. I Realize Now
23. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)
24. These Foolish Things
25. Rosetta
26. The Man I Love
27. I'm in the Mood for Love

DISC 4:
1. D-Day
2. Don't Blame Me
3. You're So Different
4. Sweet Georgia Brown
5. Wouldn't You Like to Know
6. Barcarolle
7. I Thought You Ought to Know
8. Bring Another Drink
9. It Only Happens Once
10. Baby (We Could Have a Lot of Fun)
11. Swingin' the Blues
12. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
13. Boogie a la King
14. Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah
15. Body and Soul
16. How High the Moon
17. I Got Rhythm
18. Sweet Lorraine
19. Laura
20. Keep Knockin' on Wood
21. If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow
22. Ain't Misbehavin'
23. Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)
24. Rosetta
25. It's Only a Paper Moon
26. (What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry?
27. I Wanna Turn Out My Light
28. You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)

In a prolific career Nat King Cole cut 1600 recordings. Most were led by a voice that would have made anything sound good. Cole is remembered best as a balladeer surrounded by strings, but this collection harkens back to the years 1938 to 1945, when Nat part of the now less well-known King Cole Trio. Cole was the swinging small combo's leader, arranger, vocalist and pianist - in fact, he was one of the finest jazz pianists of his generation - one of the few who could challenge Art Tatum. These remastered radio transcriptions show the trio in relaxed, creative form - it's style fully formed. It is fascinating too, to hear Cole's voice in an early manifestation - already compelling and authoritive. Here, then, is a classic era of Jazz represented by one of it's finest exponents. Cole's would go on to become of the most recognizable voices of the 20th century. Arguably, though, he never made better music than he makes here.